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NY Times Slams Obama Truck Agency Nominee
NY Times Slams Obama Truck Agency Nominee

Newspaper joins Teamsters opposed to pick of assocation leader as DOT's top truck safety official
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The New York Times joined labor and highway safety interests opposed to the nomination of state trucking association leader Anne S. Ferro to be the next Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator, publishing an editorial today calling her record “disqualifying” and her nomination by President Obama “a peculiar choice.”

“It was wrong, as several committee members noted at the time, for the Bush White House to install people from the trucking industry to regulate their own industry,” the newspaper said in its editorial. “It is no less wrong for Mr. Obama to do it.”

Since 2003, Ferro has been president of the Maryland Motor Truck Association, representing trucking companies in the state capitol of Annapolis.

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NY Times Slams Obama Truck Agency Nominee

Newspaper joins Teamsters opposed to pick of assocation leader as DOT's top truck safety official
So we should install a teamster, if the main complaint is they don't want somebody from trucking to oversee it.

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Nah, they want somebody from CARB to oversee it. Having an "Overseer" just fits so well with this profession.
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So lemme guess this right, they don't want a trucking industry professional to oversee the trucking industry? Why does that seem like putting a business person that's never been outta their office in charge of something in the middle of nowhere? it sounds like that's what they wanna do
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What they really want is a tree hugger who can figure out that we really don't need any trucks, and can all stay at home and live in a cave.
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They seem to have forgotten that the people who lived with nature back then in the caves tended to bash each other's heads in with rocks for fun. Wait, don't tell them. I have this rock that's juuuust right.
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